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Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?
Posting hole
yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.
I bet you'd need some high quality copper for that huh?
not again you mesopotamian son of a bitch
Fun thing about football right now is that there's a move called the "brotherly shove" that the Eagles do when they're very close to scoring, where the whole team puts their hands on the ass of the guy with the ball and physically propels him over the line into the endzone for the touchdown, and all the other teams' fans hate it because it's got such a ridiculously high rate of success for the Eagles and doesn't really seem to work for any other team. People are straight-up calling for this move to be banned, claiming it's "unstoppable" and gives an "unfair advantage" but it really and truly is a skill issue. The whole league hates this move because it only makes the Eagles win more often and nobody else can figure out how to do it right
Other teams are so afraid of it that they panic and do some wacky looney tunes shit to try and stop it. The refs had to come out on the field and tell the bad guys to stop doing this
because it's blatantly against the rules of football, and that if they tried it a fourth time in a row that they would just straight-up grant a free touchdown to the Eagles
The rest of the NFL: this move doesn't work for us but it always works for the eagles... how do we stop them, we've tried everything... Washington Commanders Linebacker Frankie Luvu: ...not everything... Washington Commanders Linebacker Frankie Luvu:
This is what it looks like:
Guys, this is basically a rugby scrum, right?
One day I hope there is a video game out there that doesn't directly punishes you for save scumming, but rather everyone around you are aware of it but as a haunting thing. Not like the Undertale way where Sans the Skeleton knows you were messing around with the .ini files, but internally when you quickload after gunning down an NPC with all you got, they go "Wow. It's as though I've felt that hell rained upon me. Fuck it. I quit the smokes" and you gain 50+ Polterguy points. It will make a million dollars day one
Akalabeth: World of Doom (California Pacific, 1980)
computer game graphics are so realistic these days
so, Akalabeth: World of Doom is a 1979 game for the Apple II. It's one of the first Computer Role Playing Games of all time, predating even Wizardy and Might and Magic. It launched the career of its creator, Richard Garriott, who went on to make the Ultima series. He was only 18 when he made it, in his bedroom.
It's often called Ultima 0, since it's a sort of simple dry-run for what Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness would be.
So yeah! I joke, but this game is actually very important in video game history. This was one of the first RPGs, made by a teenager who put disks in ziplocs with art by his mom, and then went on to sell 30,000 copies.
sometimes 45 years of video game genre history starts with "YOU ARE BEING ATTACKED BY A SKELETON"
How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism
through innovative, synergistic solutions that align strategic stakeholders along key performance indicators
fun fact: there are quite a few academics and scholars nowadays who argue that we are no longer in the late stages of capitalism, but in fact the early stages of something completely different. david graeber puts it thus:
Any number of names have been coined to describe the new dispensation, from the "democratization of finance" to the "financialization of everyday life." Outside the United States, it came to be known as "neoliberalism." As an ideology, it meant that not just the market, but capitalism (I must continually remind the reader that these are not the same thing) became the organizing principle of almost everything. We were all to think of ourselves as tiny corporations, organized around that same relationship of investor and executive: between the cold, calculating math of the banker, and the warrior who, indebted, has abandoned any sense of personal honor and turned himself into a kind of disgraced machine.
varoufakis calls this new era "technofeudalism", and in his book of the same name he describes it this way:
So, what is my hypothesis? It is that capitalism is now dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. In that role it has been replaced by something fundamentally different, which I call technofeudalism. At the heart of my thesis is an irony that may sound confusing at first but which I hope to show makes perfect sense: the thing that has killed capitalism is … capital itself. Not capital as we have known it since the dawn of the industrial era, but a new form of capital, a mutation of it that has arisen in the last two decades, so much more powerful than its predecessor that like a stupid, overzealous virus it has killed off its host. [...] Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets, and are better understood as fiefdoms. And profit, the engine of capitalism, has been replaced with its feudal predecessor: rent. Specifically, it is a form of rent that must be paid for access to those platforms and to the cloud more broadly. I call it cloud-rent. As a result, real power today resides not with the owners of traditional capital, such as machinery, buildings, railway and phone networks, industrial robots. They continue to extract profits from workers, from waged labour, but they are not in charge as they once were. As we shall see, they have become vassals in relation to a new class of feudal overlord, the owners of cloud capital. As for the rest of us, we have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour – in addition to the waged labour we perform, when we get the chance.
so, to put it another way: perhaps we are no longer in the later stages of capitalism, a system whose defining feature is that power belongs to those who own the means of production and can therefore profit off the labor of people they hire to work their machines and factories - but rather in the early stages of an entirely new hegemony, characterized by the fact that power is largely held by feudal overlords who have claimed dominion over specific segments of daily life through technology.
for example, under varoufakis' view, platforms like Amazon or Etsy aren't really markets in the traditional capitalist sense; they're more akin to fiefdoms, where everyone who wants to participate must do so subject to the whims and desires of the overlord, who takes a cut of everything and carefully controls what people are allowed to buy, sell, or even be shown. these corporations don't just make money by taking a cut of a worker's paid labor; they make money by charging rent for any activity that takes place within their domain. sure, your employer siphons off some of the profits you generate when you work your job - but both you and your employer are also constantly paying rent, paying tribute, to Amazon Web Services to be able to host a website, to Google for advertising, to PayPal every time you make a transfer with a surcharge... thus these companies are primarily characterized by their ownership of specific domains of everyday life, rather than by their ability to profit from what their workers sell and produce.
this is obviously not the only way to understand our current economic and political climate, just one particular lens through which to view it, but. food for thought!
How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism
through innovative, synergistic solutions that align strategic stakeholders along key performance indicators
fun fact: there are quite a few academics and scholars nowadays who argue that we are no longer in the late stages of capitalism, but in fact the early stages of something completely different. david graeber puts it thus:
Any number of names have been coined to describe the new dispensation, from the "democratization of finance" to the "financialization of everyday life." Outside the United States, it came to be known as "neoliberalism." As an ideology, it meant that not just the market, but capitalism (I must continually remind the reader that these are not the same thing) became the organizing principle of almost everything. We were all to think of ourselves as tiny corporations, organized around that same relationship of investor and executive: between the cold, calculating math of the banker, and the warrior who, indebted, has abandoned any sense of personal honor and turned himself into a kind of disgraced machine.
varoufakis calls this new era "technofeudalism", and in his book of the same name he describes it this way:
So, what is my hypothesis? It is that capitalism is now dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. In that role it has been replaced by something fundamentally different, which I call technofeudalism. At the heart of my thesis is an irony that may sound confusing at first but which I hope to show makes perfect sense: the thing that has killed capitalism is … capital itself. Not capital as we have known it since the dawn of the industrial era, but a new form of capital, a mutation of it that has arisen in the last two decades, so much more powerful than its predecessor that like a stupid, overzealous virus it has killed off its host. [...] Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets, and are better understood as fiefdoms. And profit, the engine of capitalism, has been replaced with its feudal predecessor: rent. Specifically, it is a form of rent that must be paid for access to those platforms and to the cloud more broadly. I call it cloud-rent. As a result, real power today resides not with the owners of traditional capital, such as machinery, buildings, railway and phone networks, industrial robots. They continue to extract profits from workers, from waged labour, but they are not in charge as they once were. As we shall see, they have become vassals in relation to a new class of feudal overlord, the owners of cloud capital. As for the rest of us, we have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour – in addition to the waged labour we perform, when we get the chance.
so, to put it another way: perhaps we are no longer in the later stages of capitalism, a system whose defining feature is that power belongs to those who own the means of production and can therefore profit off the labor of people they hire to work their machines and factories - but rather in the early stages of an entirely new hegemony, characterized by the fact that power is largely held by feudal overlords who have claimed dominion over specific segments of daily life through technology.
for example, under varoufakis' view, platforms like Amazon or Etsy aren't really markets in the traditional capitalist sense; they're more akin to fiefdoms, where everyone who wants to participate must do so subject to the whims and desires of the overlord, who takes a cut of everything and carefully controls what people are allowed to buy, sell, or even be shown. these corporations don't just make money by taking a cut of a worker's paid labor; they make money by charging rent for any activity that takes place within their domain. sure, your employer siphons off some of the profits you generate when you work your job - but both you and your employer are also constantly paying rent, paying tribute, to Amazon Web Services to be able to host a website, to Google for advertising, to PayPal every time you make a transfer with a surcharge... thus these companies are primarily characterized by their ownership of specific domains of everyday life, rather than by their ability to profit from what their workers sell and produce.
this is obviously not the only way to understand our current economic and political climate, just one particular lens through which to view it, but. food for thought!
this next obscure city building game will fix me
Do mention some of your favourites if you can
Not as obscure, but I've tried Against The Storm and I loved it. The mechanics are challenging and I really like the campaign thing it has. But what I really love is the presentation, it has awesome lore and a setting of perpetual rain, and the graphics are so charming, it really could have come out in 2005, it feels like those small experimental games from that era, it's really nostalgic to me.
Surviving Mars is REALLY underrated. I've played it longer that many other such games. It's something like Banished in space but it's really more than that. There is a real satisfaction in connecting all your resources, exploring the mysteries of Mars and building perfect utopian little domes. The retro-futuristic setting is awesome, and for a game that's frankly gorgeous visually, it was really easy even in my 8GB of RAM laptop. Surviving The Aftermath is the post-apocalyptic spinoff but frankly it's not as good.
If you want the most complex city builder ever made, try Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. It has perhaps some of the most detailed and minute simulations of EVERYTHING I've ever seen. Your construction vehicles have milleages and need maintenance, your sewage and water system needs to follow topography and gravity, you have to provide culture and sports to your citizens... You can turn off some options if you want but it might be the most complex, hardest and most fun city builder ever made until now. There's also the mechanics of workers and resources, where you can use the workers and resources of your republic instead of money to build everything, in theory you can do the whole supply chain from gravel for roads to nuclear plants without spending a single ruble. And the Soviet aesthetic? unmatched. It's also surprisingly VERY forgiving with RAM and graphics compared to others (coughcitiesskylines2cough)
Right now I'm going to try Tlatoani, which is a city builder inspired by Mesoamerican city states. Really interesting, hope it's good.
The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download
The BBC have released their incredible, expansive library of bizarre and obscure sound effects, all available for free download.
THIS will be sooo good for my soundboard. Those online sessions are about to become even better :D
First music, then voice modifiers… Now this. Perfect.
Also, I’m pretty sure it can be used for a lot of other activities.
Yay, no more Soundbible!
Yellowstone National Park are in possession of a treasure trove of ambient samples which they've released into public domain for your sampli
The direct link: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/soundlibrary.htm
For any content creators who’d like it!
[Image one: closeup on someone’s hand opening a can of Coca-Cola. Image two: Landscape photo of Yellowstone National Park, two mountains in the background and a buffalo in the lower right hand corner.]
when playing a game on keyboard+mouse, what do you use for the Crouch button?
Ctrl
C
other (WHAT)
either, whichever is already default (WHAT????)
im bald, show results
OK but I do genuinely believe we need to push for something like this before it's too late - and not just in digital spaces. We should have the right to peace and quiet from advertising. There should be more limits on how much and where we get advertising because otherwise it'll just become a creep of more and more until every fucking public space is lit with several billboards blasting us with ads, and the walls between spaces lined with ads, and our commutes filled with ads, and local parks sponsored by corporations to offset the cost of local councils, and so on and on and on and on. No. I need quiet. I need spaces where ads cannot touch me.
And the thing is... why put ads in games? It's not like the industry is struggling (the companies that is, not the workers, they are most certainly struggling). The biggest gaming companies are getting bigger and more profitable.
They don't need more revenue in order to survive, or even thrive. Digital games are the fastest growing and most economically valuable media in the world.
You probably can guess the answer. It's the endless search for exponential unceasing growth. Also greed.
it's such a great time to be making art of any kind
Seriously, the industry is in need of a shake up. Unionise. I've been working on a concept for how residual payments would work for games. Games workers have been mistreated for too long, and the medium suffers for it.
I am a solo indie dev trying to overcome my anxiety and actually let people know my game exists. It is a cute physics based game where you are the level.
I love making this game with passion and I am so excited to share it with the world, but somehow I need to let the world know. Unfortunately the way steam works is the more wishlists the more visibility, so if you are interested it is super appreciated :)
Wishlist on steam or visit the website to find out more mightymarbles.com
i kind of want a discussion about the size of video game maps and why devs are concerned with making them increasingly large
i feel like we hit a point where the size of the map hit the "monster cock in straight porn" part and now its just too big and we're still trying to make it work but its too much
genuinely i feel like if tears of the kingdom had a map 1/4th the size it was i would still be playing it and not trying to fake it and take it
ginormous game maps aren't really that new, I think daggerfall had a really big one?
gigantic maps that are empty or heavily repeating are what bother me (looking at you starfield)
one game having a giant map isn't what i mean. llike thats fine if its a one or two or three time occurance.
i mean how its becoming standardized and the median size of open world games is increasing constantly.
Gta V had the biggest map ever at the time of its release, and it's still huuuuge. But over the 11 years that game has been our they've made use of most of it. I think at the beginning it definitely felt immense beyond the scope of the game, and I definitely thought it was a waste of everything.
Most games don't get updated like gtav and don't need all the extra space.
I went to one of those VR places this week for a co-workers fairwell. You know the ones cropping up around the place, where they do escape rooms and such like. As the rest of the group had limited experience in VR we did 60 minutes of 4 mini-games. It was pretty fun!
I have to admit my expectations were pretty low. As a general rule, games in VR have been a bit lacking for my (admittedly somewhat refined) tastes - they tend to be a bit clunky and superficial, particularly when playing alone. But playing with 3 people and letting myself get in to the games was great! Having the bigger space was also really nice, towards the end all 4 of us were moving around the area and giving each other enough space to move.
We played a zombie horde mode game, a fast food restaurant game, a shoot the flying robots game and a shoot the fantasy themed goons with bow and arrows style game. All of them were fairly simple and welcoming to new comers to the forum, but very arcadey. They felt like double dragon type games you might play for 3 minutes at an arcade, those games capable at offering a fun but meaningless experience.
I would recommend it for an adult group wanting to try VR or maybe an escape room but there isn't one nearby.
I do think it highlight a few holes in the market - there seems to be few kid focused games available and few adult games with meaningful depth to them.
"Is it normal to-" Doesn't matter. Do it weird if it isn't hurting anyone
oh god, please be weird. Life is short, way too short to worry if you're being weird or normal. If it isn't hurting you or someone else, do it weird
gonna make the blandest most basic meme i can think of brb
I'll raise you:
